Bookkeeper&#39;s and accountant&#39;s guide



June 3 1924.

J. G. L. FORSTER BOOKKEEPERS AND ACCOUNTANTS GUIDE Filed May 28. 1920Patented dune 3, 1224.

UNETEQ STATES JOHN G. L. EORS'IER, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOOKKEEPERS 'AND ACCOUNTANTS GUIDE.

Application filed May 28, 1920.

T0071 ii /m may concern.

Be it known that 1, JOHN G. L. Fons'rnn,

a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York,borough of Manhat- 5 tan, county and State of liew York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Bookkeepers and AccountantsGuides, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for enabling bookkeepers,accountants and others required to add long columns of figures in booksor upon sheets, conveniently and accurately, and without danger ofincluding in one column the figures or members located in an adjoiningcolumn, and also to insure the entering of the figures in theappropriate column.

Further, said'invent ion has for its objectto provide a deviceof thecharacter specified which may be readily adapted for use in connectionwith short as well as long columns of figures. I

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a device of thecharacter specified which is convenient to use, and which may be readilyextended or adjusted so as to permit'of the guide to be used inconnection with columns of varying length.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a device of thecharacter specified comprising a support and an extensible guide membersecured to or carried thereby, and means whereby said support may bereadily adjusted to or formed as an integral part of a support adaptedfor securement to a blotter or other convenient holding means.

Other objects will in partbe obvious and in part be pointed outhereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends my inventionconsists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination,connection and arrangement of parts hereafter more fully described andthen pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, whereinlike numerals of reference indicate like parts,

Figure 1 is a detail perspective view showing the method of using thedevice;

Fig. 2 is a. plan or face view showing one form of device constructedaccording to and embodying my said invention;

Serial No. 384,945.

Fig. 3 is an edge view, looking in the direction of the arrow (1 Fig. 2,and

Fig. 1 is a plan or face view showing a modified construction.

In said drawings 10 designates a support which is herein shown as a fiattriangular corner pocket or receptacle, and provided with fasteningmeans 11 whereby the same may be secured to one corner of a blotter orother convenient device. From one end of said triangular support 10extends upwardly a longitudinal member 12, which is preferably formedintegrally with said support 10, and provided'at its outer end with aloop 13.

1% denotes a co-operat-ing longitudinal member which corresponds inoutline with the longitudinal member 12, and has its free outer endloosely embracedby the loop 13, formed at the outer end of the member12, and is provided at its inner end with a similar loop 15, whichembraces the longitudinal member 12 intermediate the support 10 and theloop 13, so as to permit of the extending of the guide-to enable theuser to employ the device in connection with columns of figures ofvarying heights.

The longitudinal member 14 is provided adjacent to its free end with arecess or indentation 16 adapted to receive the point of a pen or pencilwhereby to facilitate the movement of the longitudinal member 14inwardly or outwardly upon the rigid longitudinal member 12.

'At Fig. 4: the support 10 is formed as a longitudinal member, from oneend of which extends outwardly, and at right angles thereto, a rigidmember 12 carrying the slidable member 14, as shown and described inconnection with the main construction. In this construction the slidablemember 14L has its extreme end turned upwardly at right angles to thebody thereof to form a finger portion 16 whereby to move said slidablemember 145 back and forth.

The support 10 is provided with a longitudinal fastener 17 having prongs18 which extend through said support 10, and are adapted to pass throughthe blotter whereby to permit of the securing of said support 10' tosaid blotter or other convenient support.

The operation of the device is largely obvious. To use the same itmerely becomes necessary to place the holder, blotter or other device,as the case may be, to which the guide is attached, in position upon thepage or sheet adjacent to the lower end thereof, and adjust the guide,comprising the members 12 and ll, parallel With, and to one side of thecolumn of figures to be added, and then adjust the extensible member 14to a height corresponding with the height of the column to be added.

It Will of course, be obviousthat the guide comprising the members 12and 14 may be provided with' a support of any desired shape and size,and that when the support is made larger the device may be used Withouta blotter.

Having thus described my invention What I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is 1. A device of the character described, comprising arelatively thin, fiat support, meanst'or securing the same to, one endofa blotter; or analogous article, and a guide member disposed in the sametransverse plane With said support, and extending therefrom; said guidemember comprising a part rigid with said support, and a cooperating partmovably mounted with respect to said rigid part, substantially asspecified.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a relatively thin,flat support adapted to receive one endot ablotter oranalogous article,and a guide member disposed in the same'horizontal plane with saidsupport and extending therefrom; said guide member comprising a partrigid with said support, and a cooperating part slidingly mounted withrespect. to said rigid part, substantially as specified.

3. A device of the, character described com r-isin a relativel thin fiatsu 3 )ort a flat receptacle thereon adapted to receive and thereto, andmeans on one end of each of said members loosely embracing the other ofsaid members, substantially asspecified.

at. A device of the character described comprising a relatively thinflat support, adapted to receive a blotter or analogous article, and aguide member extending outwardly from one edge of said support andcomprising a longitudinal member rigidly secured at one end to saidsupport, a cooperating member corresponding in shape to said first namedlongitudinal member and movable with respect thereto, and loops arrangedat the adjoining ends of said longitudinal, members, each embracing theotherof said members, whereby. to permit of the movement of. one of saidmemberswith respect to the other, and to limit the movement of saidmovable member, substantially as specified.

5. A device of the character described,

comprising a relatively thin flat support, a.

- member formed integrally with said support,

a second longitudinal member carried by said first-named longitudinalmember and movable with respect thereto, and means arranged upon theadjoining ends of each of said longitudinal members and each em--bracing the other of said longitudinal mem bers, whereby to permit ofthe movement of said-second named:longitudinal member with respect tosaid first named-longitudinal member and to limit the outward movementof said second named longitudinal member, substantially as specified.

Signedat the city of New York, county andState of New York, this 13thday of September, one thousand nine, hundred and nineteen.

JOHN G. L. FORSTER.

lVit-ness:

CON-RAD A. DIETERICH, TILLIAM P. JONES,

